Tag Archives: Collier

Tuesday March 30th

Three times out of four we have beaten Home Boarders in a week. This evening Hobson F. and Graham won us the Gym Cup by a comfortable margin, King’s Scholars being second and Home Boarders last. Thus except Seniors (alas!) … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, School Customs, Sport | Tagged Bonner, Collier, Graham, Hobson, Home Boarders, King's Scholars, Literary Society, Miles, Radford | Comments Off

Saturday March 27th

Father not getting up I had to take Prep this morning. After Prep Collier announced to me he had a rash what had he better do? I told him to go into Mrs Thresher’s room and subsequent investigation disclosed he … Continue reading →

Posted in Abbey, Discipline, Health, Literature, Religion | Tagged Bonner, Collier, Confirmation, George II, Gordon Reed, Guy Chapman, Henry VII's Chapel, Hobson, Horace Walpole, measles, Mrs Thresher, Nall, Smurthwaite, Wakefields | Comments Off

Thursday March 25th

I am up against a stone wall, the first I have encountered in my year of office. Yesterday about 6, as far as I can make out, certain people came down from a Concert of the Glee Soc. and had … Continue reading →

Posted in Discipline, Music | Tagged Burrell, Collier, Glee Society, Hodgson, Housemaster Tanner, John, Little Go, Little Hobson, Officer Training, Radford, Shore, The Professor, Tomlinson, Yolland | Comments Off

Wednesday October 21st

Oh! Thou bloudie man! I am fairly ‘steepled in gore’ today owing to the ruthless slaughter of three children, Collier, Radford and Shore. I was again very nervous, I can’t imagine why, but I managed to control my voice. Whitmore … Continue reading →

Posted in Discipline, Local History, Science | Tagged Black Rod, Collier, Hobson, House of Lords, Lord Ashbourne, Marquis of Londonderry, Marriott, Parliament, Pronunciation, Radford, Shore, Sir H. Stephenson, Society of Antiquaries, tanning, Whitmore | Comments Off

Tuesday October 20th

Today we are faced with another problem. ‘Dearmer‘, so his mother writes (though unbeknown to him), ‘arrived home feeling very sick and with his trousers slashed rent.’ He had, apparently owing to having got up top in his form, been … Continue reading →

Posted in Discipline, Literature, Sport | Tagged Barrington-Ward, bullying, Collier, Fives, Geoffrey Dearmer, Henry V, Hodgson, Literary Society, Malden, Midsummer Night's Dream, Radford, Raynor, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Society, Tomlinson, Whitmore | Comments Off

Saturday October 17th

Thackeray somewhere in the ‘Book of Snobs’ remarks that we are all snobs at heart and that if one walked down St. James Street with a Duke on either side, it wouldn’t be human not to wish to meet all … Continue reading →

Posted in Debating Society, Discipline, Literature, School Customs, Science | Tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson, Barrington-Ward, Collier, Debating Society, G.G. Williams, Hobson, Low, Natural History Society, Whitmore, William Makepeace Thackeray | Comments Off

Monday October 5th

Another singularly uneventful day. I had another charming letter from Reed in answer to mine and sending me incidentally a list of tannings of his last term which he had forgotten to enter in the ledger and also some good … Continue reading →

Posted in Clothing, Discipline, Food | Tagged Collier, Hobson, Hodgson, John Sargeaunt, Reed, Sir G. Sterling, Smurthwaite, Whitmore | Comments Off

Tag Archives: Collier

Tuesday March 30th

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Thursday March 25th

Wednesday October 21st

Tuesday October 20th

Saturday October 17th

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